When traveling north on U.S. 1 to Melbourne, you might want to plan your drive so as to arrive in the city between the hours of 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.

That’s your window of opportunity to try the authentic Greek delights of Teddy and Adriane Theodoropoulos.

The couple have owned more than a handful of restaurants in the Melbourne area over the years and this one, Olympia Café, is their latest.

Olympia Café has space for several tables and is decorated modestly in all things Greek. Teddy is a man with a big presence, sporting his Fiddler cap as he works hard in the open kitchen.

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Olympia Cafe's moussaka is a baked Greek eggplant casserole with ground beef, tomato sauce, potatoes and a topping of Béchamel. It comes with a small Greek salad and warm pita bread.(Photo: MARIBETH RENNE/SPECIAL TO TCPALM)

Adriane and her staff efficiently serve eat-in and take-out diners. They form a team that for five hours, six days a week, take customers on a culinary tour of Greece.

We were only too happy to be transported, starting with moussaka ($12), a baked Greek eggplant casserole with ground beef, tomato sauce, potatoes and a topping of Béchamel.

Adriane explained that moussaka comes with a small Greek salad and warm pita bread, but I called this toss-up of romaine lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, pepperoncini, olives and feta cheese a salad large enough for two. It was dressed with an amazing homemade Greek salad dressing passed down through the generations.

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Olympia Cafe's spanakopita is a golden-brown filo dough pie filled with spinach, feta and onions and comes with salad and pita.(Photo: MARIBETH RENNE/SPECIAL TO TCPALM)

Spanakopita ($8.25), a golden-brown filo dough pie filled with spinach, feta and onions, also came with this big “small” salad and pita.

Both Greek specialties were delicious.

The Grecian steak sub ($7 for a small and $8.25 for a large) was unmistakably Greek with lots of juicy, Greek-seasoned beef and peppers, onions, mushrooms and feta cheese. Again, we ordered the small but were delighted with the large sandwich that was delivered to our table. We wondered how big the large sub would be. It came with a generous serving of French fries.

We had a lovely triangle of baklava ($2.25) and a kataifi ($2.25), a dessert about which I was not familiar, and enjoyed every morsel.

Kataifi looks a lot like a shredded wheat biscuit. The shredded phyllo dough is filled with nuts and soaked in a sweet syrup. I liked it very much but my personal preference for a Greek dessert still is baklava.

We helped ourselves to fountain drinks ($1.95) but Greek beer and wine also are available.

This small, casual café delivers big on Greek.

Maribeth Renne dines anonymously at the expense of Treasure Coast Newspapers for #TCPalmSocial. Contact her at maribeth.d.renne@gmail.com or follow @mebpeb on Twitter.